What does bashing mean?
Bashing means present participle and gerund of bash.
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/ˈbæʃɪŋ/ · verb
present participle and gerund of bash.
I gulped a bit of tea. ‘I bet, Dad,’ I said, ‘you give those poor old 1930s of yours a bit of a bashing.’
Jean-Claude Juncker has called for an end to “Russia-bashing” two months after scores of Moscow’s diplomats across the EU were expelled in response to the use of a nerve agent in the UK.
Use bashing when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Bashing means present participle and gerund of bash.
Common synonyms include beating.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
I gulped a bit of tea. ‘I bet, Dad,’ I said, ‘you give those poor old 1930s of yours a bit of a bashing.’
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